Reader M. has submitted a bit of prose for our readers.
It’s so telling…(but, I may or may not be reflecting about you. You know who you are.)
You ‘know it all’ when you’ve been in up north for two years. It’s cute, refreshingly adorable when you pat yourself on the back with the proud assumption that you are a full fledged expert on controversial northern issues because your certificate/diploma of ‘authenticity’ is the stub of a First Air or Canadian boarding pass… Wow, let me roll out the red carpet for you to spew out your all encompassing knowledge of Canada’s newest territory and all her problems.
You are like what they call a ‘home wrecker’, well move over because I have stood by too many times while I’ve watched you favor your look alike twins at a lot of services, institutions and the most hurtful is at the hospital, favoring your kin and treating my family and especially my babies lesser to how you would nurture your family pet.
New territory. It isn’t one to be patronized and belittled. A new territory; is a mutli-generational construction site one which requires wisdom, patience and enough where-with-all to shut your mouth when you don’t have an answer (but that would be too for some). Nunavut is a work site where people are willing to pick up the pieces and work with what we’ve got. Sometimes it’s so obvious that it isn’t much, but literally, shut up, deal with it, get over yourself and be constructive.
You are not someone I would call an expert because you read a newspaper clipping, hear local coffee shop gossip or you internalize your spouse’s stories from ‘work’. Really expert; take your narrow minded comments excerpted from a history of haughtiness and put it back on the sealift on which you meticulously planned for a terrible time up in our beautiful, exotic locale and park your butt back in a suburb and strut like you’re ‘all that’ down south, because quite frankly I’m being burdened; quite often to the point of folding and saying, ‘Yeah, you’re right, I’m a f_cking failure. Thanks for pointing that out.’ (Arrogant prick)
Like, the climate of being under a global microscope to wait to see if we will fly or flop isn’t stressful enough, you add the nuts who strut around in their Patagonia’s, MEC’s, and ‘North Face’ getup who annoy and interfere with the monumental task of a group of people who until very recently lived in the now cutsie igloo’s being guided by the once necessary and now inspiring inuksuk, are mustering up any courage to ‘give it their all’ in their pride and joy, their fledgling Nunavut – a dream which you so smartly deflate.
Perhaps you are satisfied with replacing the difficult environmental elements that the Inuit survived and thrived in with your hostile mind frame that try’s to put her down and defame her God given wonderment and beauty. (F_cken Bully)
Some have been publicly humiliated, demoralized, shamefully disgraced and striped (literally and figuratively) at every turn; try as they might you will always set them up to fail, so get yourself another certificate/diploma and disgrace another land with your high-fa-lut'en negativity.
If you let your mouth give you away in public and you see a ‘beneficiary’ or anyone else with some wisdom quietly smiling at you, make a mental note that you do not fool others with your terrible words which you cleverly masquerade as learned, superior with philanthropist rhetoric. (You are as malicious as you are self-destructive.)
Do everyone around you a favor and get a new postal code or, wonder of wonders - you might consider joining the band wagon because although Nunavut is still licking her wounds someday she will fly and some day I hope you may proudly point to your pieces of her success, may Our land (yours and mine) be filled with unity and not dissention. Make up your mind, put your malicious tongue away and do what you can to make our Nunavut fly.
M.
12 comments:
Looks like someone tried to use the thesaurus a bit too much. I don't think I am understanding the point that is trying to be made here.
Look around the meetings, volunteer groups, etc and who do you see? Mainly southerns. That is because most inuks are too lazy to attend unless they are getting paid. Ask around those meetings for people put in extra hours and who shows up? The southerners. Then you wonder why they move away after two years?? They are so burned out from giving their all to a community who cannot wake up until after one in the afternoon, who do not take care of their children, who abuse their elders, who will not pursue education unless it is brought to their doorstep, who will not speak their own language at home (yet expect it to be done at school), who do not show up for appointments and get mad when they cannot be seen at 1am, who are losing their traditional ways again due to laziness. You can blame southerners all you want, but for the most part, it is southerners with their hard work that are helping to get Nunavut on track. When inuks start getting out of bed and getting jobs (yes, they are there to be had), and being responsible for themselves instead of blaming the government and whitey for all of their woes, then maybe Nunavut will become something. Until then, I will continue to respect those who come from the south and work hard in Nunavut.
I agree that Nunavut will thrive one day and succeed. We have to let her spread her wings. Negativity sucks...
but seriously, anger much? You don't like hearing "malicious" things, but that was really "malicious".
You have an idea in there somewhere, but you basically just told everyone to fuck off and leave the territory, and I don't think that's what you were trying to get at.
Wow, someone's got a hate-on. What a vague and incomprehensibe rant. For the life of me I can't figure out what you're even accusing these evil MEC-clothing wearers (of which I am one, it's durable stuff, and actually not terribly fashionable, but you might not know that) of doing.
Glad you posted it though, it's always nice to hear what people are thinking, even if it doesn't make any sense. Keep spreading those wings and showing us how it's done...
Ouch, right to the point, some good, some unreasonable.
Nothing wrong with using the old thesauruses, but maybe the poster would have been more comfortable in their own language? Then we would not have understood a word, eh?
Anonymous# 2 uses too many generalizations for my comfort. I know many Inuit who work as hard or harder than anyone from any where. I also know many Inuit who fit the perceived lazy description. Many of the so called lazy people once out on the land are transformed to something that is quite mind blowing if one ever has the opportunity to witness it.
As to the “demand for payment” statement. It is my experience that it is white civil servants, researchers and business people trying to get their views across who started and continue this abhorrent practice.
What all races have to start doing is to pick and chouse positive parts of each culture and try blend them for everybody’s benefit. Alas I bow to the frailties of human nature on that one.
can't we just see each other as people and not races? i'm so sick of the negativity and intolerance from both sides. we all bleed the same.
HUH? I've read this post a couple times through and I still have no clue what the heck is being said! I think I need to go get a bigger knife to help me cut through such dense prose.
For me it ends up like this.
Eighty perscent of people are basically decent, doing their jobs, living their lives, and trying to get by.
Ten percent are saints, deeply committed to some vision or another, pushing hard to achieve some greater good.
Ten percent are assholes, angry at anyone who they perceive as doing better than them, angry at people trying to change things, angry at people not like them, angry at people who don't share their anger.
I haven't found that ratio to be much different within ANY particular sector of Nunavut's population, to tell you the truth.
Well said Balbulican!
I am growing tired of "righteous" bloggers/GN Employees coming from the south venting about "how life should be" or " how life should be better" here in Nunavut, given their guised agendas and /or limited experience in the North!
YOU are hired HERE to WORK here. I ask you, would you blog about your teaching experience in Belleville just up the 401? Would you blog about the water/hydro costs in Ontario? - Walkerton??, fishing down the river on a raft, or the latest deer hunt?? the rising price of gas, perhaps?
This "survivor-esque" quest SOME are on, combined with a journalistic "exposee" on cutting-edge insight into "THE NORTH" biased sensationslism, explains ALL the reasons WE ARE CONSIDERED BY ALL - VISITORS HERE! !! Nothing more than quasi-journalists reporting a personal agenda, or, in the least, a skeptics potpourri -liking the sound of their own verbal rants ? Instead, you should be teachers here; isn't that why you originally came here? To teach?
What compels someone to BLOG about their life here? Even when you "claim" to not mention schools / community, you lie, do anyway and basque in the controversy of it all? What is the intent of BLOGS - to inform, or vent? If it is to vent, what purpose does that serve? Who has given you the "authoritative voice" to vent on Inuit lifestyle? How does that help / hurt / hinder the communities growth? How does your venting affect other community members - southern/Inuk? Do controversial BLOGS enrage local latent/covert racial hatred?
Hired to teach ENGLISH / SPECIALIST positions is a priority in Nunavut, given a lack of qualified Inuit teachers. They are given first opportunity at jobs. In a LOI ( Language of Instruction) committed territory that makes sense to you? Do you agree with this?
How do you see yourself benefitting by your blogging? How do you see your students benefitting by your blogging? ( that's most important, isn't it?)
The strength of this community, and the North in my opinion, will come through the continued resilience of it's northern people, combined with a positive relationship with southern people, WHO ARE HERE WITH A DEFINED PURPOSE - committed to a "work" mentality, rather than a "save the "Inuit" mentality!
To you - I wish teaching on in good health - keep perspective, and let the "gooders" sink with the Farley Mowatt!
Who are you to judge Inuit? Who in this practice are you advocating for?
P's and Q's
you all fail.
well I just made my day a little
bit better :P
Just remember your basically getting all upset over a pretentious reserve.
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